Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery
11:30 am
Professor Frank Keane:
All procedures that are done in the hospital as inpatient or day cases are coded. What was said to you before is that if a procedure is carried out in the outpatients department or sometimes in minor operations rooms, which are usually in the outpatients department, they do not get coded.